26 VOLCANO8 AND KM Mi 



: .," he says, on Sunday the 8th of August, " there 

 port, \\IIM h shook the hon 



and its in l:',hboinhood to sih il.ltlil the 



inhabitants ;ind dir, <ut into i 



wiiuli' ml as I have since seen, walls 



1 l>y the Concussion of tin- air ln>m that expl- 

 . . . . In OIK- instant a fountain of li<|iiid \\ 

 I'm- began to ii.<\ and I'ladually iii(i< 



a hei-ht, as to strike every one who 



beheld it with the most awful astonishment. I shall 

 (I when I a. Mire you that, to 



the best Of my judgment, the hei:;ht of this stupen- 

 dous column of fire could not be less than three 



that of \ e ' !t ; \\hicli, ynu know, 



peil'endu ulaily near 3700 feet above the level of 

 the sea." (The height by my own me.; .uieinent in 



l824 IS 3Q20 feet). M I 'lifts Of Smoke, M bl. 



Iv be nii.i;',ined, su. eeeded one an<thei ha.lilv, 

 and a< . oni|.anied the rrd-hot, b Dt, ami li|ind 



niterni|itiui; its s].lendid blightnCM line and there 

 l< hes of the d.uke.t hue. Within these |.n 

 smoke, .it the \eiv moment of tlieir elm . -K >n tiom the 

 ( later, I ( ould jiereeive a bin, hi but pale elft 

 pl.i\m.-, about in /i:;/ag lines. The liquid lava, i 

 \\itlj mounted, I veiily 



belic-ve at least IO,OOO feet, falling ix-ipi-ndieukulv on 

 \ etUI Wd Us whole (one, part ol that of Somma, 



and the \alley betueen them. The lallinj; mall. a ! 

 neaily as vivid and inllamed as that whu h was continu- 

 ally i the crater, formed with it one 



